Football Manager 2012 Wonderkids

Welcome to the first and best list of wonderkids in Football Manager 2012 by FMScout.com. I have dedicated many hours into producing this list to make sure this is really the greatest wonderkids list around the web.

Easily the most in-depth and well-presented list of the best young players in Football Manager 2012.

This is the successor of what has been the best list of FM 2011 wonderkids. That list received over 2 million views and is considered the most popular single article around the scene, by far.

This is the third edition, including over 550 players and featuring recommendation stars!

What do those stars mean?Gold means must-get (as in will most likely turn out to be world-class), silver means highly recommended (won't get as amazing as the player with gold), and no star means the player has good potential but might not live up to the expectations. It's still a personal opinion though, so don't follow it blindly.

Updates will be applied from to time to ensure I'm not missing any players worthy of appearing here.

Updated: 12 May 2012Released: 21 Oct 2011

What are wonderkids?

Remember that by wonderkids, we are referring to players with amazing potential ability and great or decent current ability up to the age of 20.We cannot reveal CA/PA because it would be against the rules of SI.

Like last year, this list features the best young players in the game, some of them will already be wonderkids, other should be pretty close and there will also be the ones that should have the potential but it's not certain they will make it before they turn 21!

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138 Comments

Discussion on "Football Manager 2012 Wonderkids"

archangel • 2012-05-19 14:02
and one more thing stam, pls fm genie scout is listing ross barkley nationality has England and Nigeria, y is that? does he has Nigerian origin? and on his wiki page, nothing like that there, pls kindly explaining, thx.

bojan was loaned in the game cos after two seasons he returned to barca, i know cos am using barca and he returned after two seasons and i sold him off.

but seriously stam, u are doing a damn good job, and pls stop been a jackass, which means stop replying to all those who are not appreciating ur marvelous work, are we paying u any moni, NO!!!!!!!!!!, thx alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I"m not sure if they are two different players but Denis is listed twice

And Martin Montoya is listed as German

Thanks for the previous response

Stam • 2012-05-11 22:33
List has been updated 100% for the 12.2 patch and now extends to more than 550 young talents. It's possible I might have made some mistakes for a few players (typos or wrong country/position), so please comment and I will fix them. Also if you think a player is missing or someone else doesn't deserve to be here, feel free to speak up and I will take action. Enjoy!

Stam • 2012-05-08 15:41
@ujg41: I said the list has been updated 85%, and half the attacking midfielders and all strikers need to be checked for the 12.2 update. That explains why Morata is still not in the list, but he will be. Final update probably tomorrow.
Thanks for the corrections. I'm only human and I make mistakes, especially when updating a huge list like this one.

@andreas makris: We can't reveal PA because SI won't allow it. As a general rule for a player to be on this list is to have at least a PA of 150 or -9 (which translates to 150+). We've included some -8 players as well, the better of them. -8 means they can get 150-160 PA too even though 130 is the random starting point. I used recommendation stars to help people spot the very best talents.

ujg41 • 2012-05-07 02:02
No Alvaro Morata?
And you have Inigo Martinez as a goalkeeper in this list, he's a central defender
And Pablo Sarabia is Spanish, not Argentine

Andreas35 • 2012-05-04 13:33
You dont want to reveal players PA but in my opinion to be a wonderkid must have PA 150 and more and some of them they dont.

Stam • 2012-05-04 10:37
List has been updated 85% for the 12.2 patch. Half the attacking midfielders and all strikers need to be re-checked for 1 final update next week. Enjoy!

Stam • 2012-05-04 10:28
@madison93: Thanks for your suggestion, I'll add him with the next update. He's not better than Fabio though

@cleverboy27: No. We'd like people to return to this page and use it as reference. If they could download it, everyone would steal it and pass it as his own on other fan-sites and never return here.

@ajtwist: He already is, he even has a golden star recommendation

@nickjurgutis: Thanks for the kind words. The list has just been updated, even though still partly (need to re-check half the attacking midfielders and all strikers).

@the don 1999: Just sort each position by nation and you shall find a few.

@sladz87: He was added with the latest update for 12.2 data update. Thanks for your comment.

sladz87 • 2012-04-09 15:51
found a great kid, kurt zouma - as saint-ettienne
im at man utd and it said three an a half star, gotta be woth a mention

Nguyen Ngoc • 2012-04-03 04:12
tks
very useful, save the time for scout

Stam • 2012-03-23 03:54
I'll try to update the list next week to reflect database changes in the 12.2 update.

By the way, the stars next to some players are recommendation stars. Gold means must-get (as in will most likely turn out to be world-class), silver means highly recommended (won't get as amazing as the player with gold), and no star means the player has good potential but might not live up to the expectations. It's still a personal opinion though, so don't follow it blindly.

On a side note, people asking why they can't find some of the players on their game, the answer is simple. I've loaded every player on the database to compile this list, almost 300K players. When you start a game, you normally load 50K players or less; so there's your reason.

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